Pagetopper!

Just kidding.

Edit: Never mind, I guess I wasn't kidding after all. Sorry.

edited 5th Jan '12 12:23:14 PM by CDRW

just kidding

edited 5th Jan '12 12:25:04 PM by FallenLegend

.....SON OF A-

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D'AWWWWW

Hmm. . .i guess I'll have to take your word for it. I just can get past how shamelessly exploitative it can get, not to much how desperately it wants me to sympathizes with such utterly reprehensible characters. I also hate the world that it seems to take place in, to me it is unbelievable.

So how much entertainment you can glean from the blog depends on how much you can sympathizes with its. . ."protagonist". No wonder I hate it.

I guess I wouldn't be as hard on as I am if it weren't for the fact that it hijacked well known and liked characters to achieve its purpose.

But whatever, different strokes and what not.

edited 5th Jan '12 12:41:10 PM by Mio

A lot of my entertainment comes from sympathising with them. I think to myself I want this totally evil and insane murderer to be happy. How interesting. Juxtaposition. I suppose if I were more intellictual I could go on about philisophical implications and all that, but I just enjoy the contrast. It's like trying to figure out which side you're rooting for in Death Note, or reading Lolita.

edited 5th Jan '12 12:37:48 PM by CDRW

It's a well-known and well-documented fact that psychopaths and sociopaths can be very charming. Most of the appeal I saw in Ask Pinkamina was that Pinkamina herself knew that she was twisted and wrong, and in her own way, wished she could be better than what she was. Even in darkness there can be light, as the last post said.

Did it have to use ponies? No, and in several ways I wish it hadn't. However, the characters were engrossing and the concept itself - a look into the mind of a (sort of) reluctant serial killer - was quite interesting. I don't think I'll follow CrookedTrees' new blog, but who knows?

edited 5th Jan '12 12:53:22 PM by RedSavant

The new blog has wangst written all over it. I probably won't follow it either.

I ship the doctor and rose in my drawing

The doctorXRose

I guess that is an interesting way of looking at it. It kind of also explains why it was so popular for awhile.

I wonder what that says about me that I really just thought that the protagonist deserved to die, and that the author was being obnoxiously exploitative.

That kind of begs the question of why I should care. If a smal, tiny part of her feels sorry for what she has done, and yet acknowledges that there is nothing she can (or will) do to stop them, then that honestly makes her worse in my mind.

Urgh, why don't we switch to another subject before my smoldering anger causes my heart to explode?

edited 5th Jan '12 1:22:34 PM by Mio

There's no question that she deserves punishment for her actions, but one post at least implies that she knows that and just views herself as so far past the Moral Event Horizon (which, to be honest, she is) that she can never be redeemed. (Yes, I know that anywhere past the moral event horizon is irredeemable, but.)

edited 5th Jan '12 1:12:11 PM by RedSavant

MY drawing looks very dirty I will clean it later and show it to you guys.

edited 5th Jan '12 1:25:08 PM by FallenLegend

Looking forward to that.

Thanks :)

As an Aquarius the Brony Zodiac deems me Big Macintosh. All I can say is "Thank god I'm not Rarity".

Hey Mousa! How you doin' ?

Nice !

(I just noticed half of my posts look like my avatar: Looking in both directions!)

edited 5th Jan '12 1:32:50 PM by DhanaRagnarok

I just came back from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and while I liked the first one a lot more, the ending of this one was simply unbelievable.

But yeah, I'm doing okay. I think I'll do more art soonish.

edited 5th Jan '12 1:31:16 PM by MousaThe14

According to that zodiac a while back, it seems I am Twi. Yay?

*Looks at zodiac*

So I'm apparently....Apple Bloom? Yeah, that description doesn't fit me at all.

As far as stuff like Cupcakes goes, I think most of the interest stems from Bile Fascination. I don't really see any reason for it. Not to say that violence can't be used in a story, but there needs to be more too it than "lol character goes insane and messily kills everyone" for it to be anything more than a novelty.

Ask Pinkamena is probably a good example; I think it kinda worked because it managed to take the Psycho!Pinkie character and actually give it some depth beyond the shock value. The fact that it tried to explore the implications a bit more gave it a little merit. It was still far from perfect (the characterizations and art are so different from the original that barely feels like MLP at all; in retrospect, that might be why it's one of the few grimdark MLP things I don't mind), but it wasn't totally execrable as Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre.

edited 5th Jan '12 1:46:09 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Hey guys. I've been enjoying a meal with a few of my friends (they're going back to university tommorrow)

What've I missed?

Here it is now a clean version of my shipping drawing ROSE X THE DOCTOR

Not much.

There was the pony zodiac, Fallen was showing off some art, and I was gripping over exploitation fics.

Welcome back

Well I am not that good of an artist but the drawings that I see here inspire me

I'm Applejack. I think I only have two of her traits.

edited 5th Jan '12 2:18:47 PM by TheFreeman

Oh hey Gingy, good to see ya again.

Hey, Ginger, good to see you.

Nothing much has gone on. But hey, ponies in two days!